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Dir ty Toys Made in China

The Zhenyang Wanju

Sweatshop Factor y

INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL

LABOUR AND HUMAN RIGHTS

December 2015


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Executi ve Sum m ar y ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .? ? ? 3

Work Hour s ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ............? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ...5

Work ing Condit ions ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .......? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 6

Injection Depar tm ent ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ..? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ..7

Spr ay Pai nt an d Pr inti ng ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ..8

Assem bly Depar tm ent ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .10

The Hir in g Pr ocess ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .12

Temp and Stu dent Wor ker s ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ..? ? ? ? ? ..14

Factor y Facil it ies ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ...? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .18

Peak Season and Slack Season wages and hour s ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ..26

Toys and Global War m in g ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .? ? ? 29

Int er view w it h a Zhenyang Work er ? ? ? ? ? ..? ? ? ? ? .? ? ? ? ? ? ? 30

Addenda ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .......? ? ...............32

Table of Contents

Insti tute for Global Labour and Human Rights

60 Boulevard of the Alli es, 6

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Floor

Pit tsburgh, PA 15222

Tel: (412) 562-2406 www.globallabourrights.org Email: [email protected]

Author: Charles Kernaghan

Research: U.S.: Barbar a Br iggs, Cassie Li gnel li ,

Shr eya Raghur aman , Cassie Rusnak

Chinese Researchers must r emain anonym ous

Repor t Design: Cassie Rusnak

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Working Conditions

Work in all of Zhenyang?s production

departments is constant and fast. Pressure to

produce and make quota is enormous. The

workers say that ?Both hands must be

constant ly moving.?

Workers are required to work sitt ing down in

all departments except for packing. They are

not all owed to move f rom their work

stat ions or even to drink water. They have

to get a special pass to use the bathroom,

and each product ion l ine of 35 to 50 workers

only has one pass.

There are many heal th and safety problems

at Zhenyang, often specif ic to the factory?s

various production departments. The factory

has no health and safety commit tee.



The Spray Paint Department is located on

the highest f loor of the building, and

even wi th the windows wide open, it is

excessively hot.

In the spray paint department, the

workers do not always have fans. Nor do

they have masks.

The spray paint and printing workrooms

are ful l of fumes. Spray paint and print ing

workers told our researchers that the

paints they use have harmf ul chemicals,

including alcohol, phenylenediamine,

and sodium peroxide. Workers just

start ing in this department of ten feel

nauseous, dizzy, and have headaches.

Some can? take it , and apply to swi tch to

a dif ferent department or just quit.



In the Assembly Depart ment, each

product ion l ine is made up of between

35 and 50 people.

The work stations and aisles are very

crowded. There are piles of product in the

fire escape areas? a seri ous safety hazard.

The assembly department and the warehouse

also have locks on their f ire safety doors



The Hiring Process

- Since there is a high turnover rate,

with many workers quitt ing the

factory, management is always trying

to hire new workers, especially in

peak season.

- Management hires workers at the

main gate between 8:00 a.m. and 2:00

p.m. each day. The factory has also

contracted with a staff ing company

for temp and student workers.

- All workers must undergo a physical

exam. Workers say the exams are

prett y sketchy. They say the cl inic

has poor facili ti es and is located in an

isolated area. They must pay 40 RMB

($6.28 USD) for t he exam.

- The labor contract is just a sheet of

blank paper. There is nothing on it ,

and workers are told t o ?just sign it .?

- During the hiring process, workers also

must have their photos taken, for which

they pay 10 RMB ($1.57 USD). They

are also required to pay 5 RMB (79

cents US) for a bank card and a 20 RMB

($3.14) deposit for a cafeteria card in

order to eat in the factory cafeteria.

- Aft er a short t raining, workers are

given their of f icial badges and sent t o

work. They have no idea what they are

doing. This is a serious issue for

workers who are in dangerous

departments. (Workers are assigned

their manufacturing departments.

They are not all owed to choose their

own department.)

- Depending on senority, workers can

receive 50 to 100 RMB ($7.85 to

$15.71) a month for perfect

attendance.



- Students and temp workers are not

provided wi th any training. They do

not sign any forms. Like the regular

workers, they toil 12 hour shif ts.

- The factory employs about 800 temp and student workers. The workers

are disbursed among the inject ion molding, spray paint , print ing and

assembly depart ments. Temps must be between 18 and 30 years of age. In

general, the temps are al l f emale. A male worker may be accepted if he

brings two female workers with him.

Temp & Student Workers

- Temps who do not work a full

three months are required to

pay a management f ee of 300

RMB ($47.13)



Testi m on y of a Stu den t

Worke r

After a whi le, I got to know ever yone

work ing on the li ne. The work was

easier to take after gett in g to know some

of the wor kers, especially some of the

older m en and women. Of th is whole

exper ience of w ork in g in Dongguan, the

only thing I don? r egret i s meeting my

fellow worker s. They knew that the

factory gave us lousy food. So, every

weekend they invi ted us to thei r houses

for meals.

"On day two, we star ted work. A mass

of people arr ived in the wor kshop.

I w as sit ting at the work station and I

felt ner vous. We wer e makin g a toy

gun. My w ork involved doing quali ty

control. Fir st I had to in spect a small

piece, and then I had to pu t on some

lubr icating oil . By the end of the day, I

was covered in oil .



Factory Facilities

The Zhenyang factory has a total of five

manufacturing buildings, each of them

with five fl oors. The f irst floors of the

manufacturing buildings are for the

inject ion molding departments. Assembly

and quali ty control take up the other floors

of the buildings.

The work areas are very crowded.

The stairwells up to the work rooms are

narrow and get very crowded.



There are also six worker dorm

buildings wi th six f loors each. The

male and female dorms are in t he

same buildings. People can freely

come and go f rom the dorm

buildings. But t his can af fect the

workers?safety and privacy.

The top f loors are for married

couples and management personnel.

Mostly these f loors are reserved for

managers and their families,

not regular workers.



There are no washing machines in the dorms.

The bathrooms have basins where workers

wash their clothes by hand and then hang

them to dry.



There is no heat or air condit ioning in the

Zhenyang factory or i ts dormitories.

Guangdong can get cold in the winter (do

to the 40s Fahrenhei t ), especially from

December through March.



Peak Season Wages and Hours

Forced and excessive overt ime is the norm. Workers cannot take sick leave. They are

forced to work il l . It i s common for managers to shout at t he workers. Workers report

that bosses are of ten wildl y aggressive and confrontational.

Peak season runs from Apri l through October. During these seven months, the workers

earn between 2,900 RMB ($455.55) and 3,500 RMB ($549.81) per month? or between

$3,188.85 and $2,848.67 for the entire seven-month period.

During peak season the workers are required to toil 11 hours a day (eight regular hours

plus three hours overt ime), six days a week for a work week of 66 hours. (Most workers

receive one day off a week, generally Sundays.)

Slack Season Wages and Hours

Slack Season runs for f ive mont hs, November through March. During slack season, the

workers earn between 1,800 RMB ($282.76) and 2,500 RMB ($392.72) per month? or

between $1,413.80 and $1,963.60 for the full f ive months.



The top f loors are for married couples and management personnel. Mostly these

floors are reserved for managers and their famil ies, not regular workers.

One male worker has been at the

Dongguan Zhenyang factory for

two full years. Right now he earns

a lot of overtime? up to 3,000

RMB to 3,500 RMB ($471.26 t o

$549.81) per month. When

management takes out his

insurance, he is lef t with about

3,200 RMB ($502.68).

He volunteers for a lot of overtime,

when he can earn 13.02 RMB ($2.05)

an hour, or double time on weekends

for 17.36 RMB ($2.73) an hour.

?I also have a child,?

he told us,

?and I

pay for him? school tuition and more.

I can skip meals, but I don? want to

deprive my child. At the end of the

month, I don? have much money left ?



I n ter v iew w i th a W or k er

at Zhen yan g

?People at the top don? care about

low-level workers. All they care about is

getting the products out the door. They

tell us: ?Why are you complaining? When

you have to work overtime, you don? want

to. When there is no overtime, you

complain to us again ?

?The managers are mean They are

insane. They f reak out and scream at

workers for the smallest things.

?Now it?s peak season and it is hard to

take time off .

?If you take sick leave, they wil l cut

your wages.

??Dark factories?are like this. We long

term workers get 100 RMB [$15.71] a

month in bonuses. But i f the boss is

angry, he wil l cancel the bonuses.



Addenda

Dongguan Zhenyang Factory and its International Clients

Chinese Production for Export and Global Warming

Products Photographed in the Zhenyang Factory



Zhenyang's International Clients

Disney

500 S Buena Vista St

Burbank, CA 91521

Phone: (818) 560-1000

Fax: (818) 560-1930

Robert A Iger, Chairman and CEO

Leslie Ferraro, President, Disney

Consumer Products

Email: [email protected]

www.thewaltdisneycompany.com

Jakks Pacific

(Licensee for Disney)

2951 28th St

Santa Monica, CA, 90405

Phone: (424) 268-9444

Stephen G. Berman, President and CEO

Anne-Marie Feliciano, Corporate

Communications

Disney/Jakks toys produced at Zhenyang:

Disney ?Frozen? Elsa?s Musical Snow

Wand and others.

Hasbro, Inc.

1027 Newport Avenue

Pawtucket, RI 02862

Phone: 401-727-5401

Brian Goldner, Chairman and CEO

Hasbro toys produced at Zhenyang: Nerf

?Super Soaker Scatter Blast,? Nerf ?Vortex

Proton Blaster? squirt guns and Angry

Birds ?Star Wars Han Solo Launcher toy

pellet gun.

MGA Entertainment

(Lalaloopsy)

16300 Roscoe Blvd., Suite 150

Van Nuys, CA 91406

Phone: (818) 894-2525

Isaac Larian, CEO

International Distributor:

Headstart International Pty Ltd.

Phone: +61 3 9862 9600

MGA Lalaloopsy toys produced at

Zhenyang: Lalaloopsy Minis Super Silly

Party Musical Cake Playset, Lalaloopsy

Light Up Pony, Lalaloopsy Potty Surprise.

http://www.thewaltdisneycompany.com/



http://www.ludendo.com/http://www.nsi-intonline.com/



Chinese Production for Export and Global Warming

A paper publ ished th is week i n the

journal Natur e Cli mate Change

bui lds on research into how m uch

of Chi na?s carbon di ox ide

pol lu t i on is cr eated by m aking

goods for expor t. The answer i s

a lot : About a f i f t h to a thi r d of

such emi ssions fr om Chi na cam e

fr om making expor ts, according

to earl ier studies. The new paper

adds detail to that r esearch and

concludes that whi le i t m ight be

cheaper to m ake thi ngs i n Chi na,

the cost i s mor e pol lu t i on than i f

th e goods wer e made

elsewhere.?

? ?Chi na?s expor ts account for a

lar ge amount of greenhouse gases

not j ust because the countr y

happens to make so much for

for eign markets, but also because

so many of th ose ex por ts have

been m ade by u sin g r elati vely

di r ty pr ocesses and by bu r ni ng

so much coal, the researcher s say.?

? ?The author s say Chi na?s expor ts

entail signi fi cantly mor e emissions

than i f t he same goods were made

in Eur ope. Maki ng a r ange of

pr oducts l ik e steel, alum in um

and pr opylene in Chi na r esul ts in

an average of 4.4 ti m es m or e

car bon di oxi de em ission s th an if

th e same pr oducts wer e made in

th e Eur opean Union , they say.

Dirty Toys

China is by far the world?s largest emit ter of carbon dioxide (CO2), a powerful

greenhouse gas contr ibuting to global warming and climate change. And,

between a f i f th and one-third of CO

2

released in China comes from

product ion of exports. In fact, CO2 emissions from China?s exports are often

much greater t han f or t he same products made in t he U.S. or Europe. This is

largely due to China?s reliance on di rty coal for energy.

Toys made at the Zhenyang Wanju toy f actory in China provide a good

example. Propylene is one of the ingredients in the plastic used in many of

the toys made at Zhenyang. Propylene production in China releases 18.4

t imes more global warming COs on average than propylene produced in the

European Union Production of another common plastic,ABS (acrylonitri le

Butadiene Styrene) in China results in an average of 3.2 times the carbon

dioxide emissions into the earth?s atmosphere.

- New Yor k Times, ?China?s Expor ts

are Closely Linked to Its Emissions,?

October 1, 2015

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/chinas-exports-are-closely-linked-to-its-emissions/?_r=0http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/chinas-exports-are-closely-linked-to-its-emissions/?_r=0http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/chinas-exports-are-closely-linked-to-its-emissions/?_r=0http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/chinas-exports-are-closely-linked-to-its-emissions/?_r=0http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/chinas-exports-are-closely-linked-to-its-emissions/?_r=0http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/chinas-exports-are-closely-linked-to-its-emissions/?_r=0http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/chinas-exports-are-closely-linked-to-its-emissions/?_r=0http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/chinas-exports-are-closely-linked-to-its-emissions/?_r=0http://www.cmu.edu/gdi/docs/the-contribution.pdfhttp://www.cmu.edu/gdi/docs/the-contribution.pdfhttp://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2800.htmlhttp://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2800.htmlhttp://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2800.htmlhttp://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2800.html



http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/nclimate2800_T1.html



Hasbro (Nerf)

Nerf Super Soaker

Scatter Blast

Product Number :

28498

Manufacturer:

Hasbro

Photo f rom the

Zhenyang factory

Products in the Zhenyang Factory



Walmart - $21.99

Amazon - $19.99

Angry Birds Star Wars

Han Solo Launcher

Product Number :

A2631

Manufacturer:

Hasbro

Photos from the Zhenyang factory



Wubble Bubble (by NSI International)

Photos f rom the packing department

in Zhenyang factory



Lalaloopsy (by MGA Entertainment)

Worker tr imming plastic Lalaloopsy cakes

in the Zhenyang factory



Lalaloopsy

Light Up Ponies

Product Number :

524694

Manufacturer:

MGA Enter tainment

Target - $14.19

Amazon- $14.48

Lalaloopsy (by MGA Entertainment)

Photo from the Zhenyang factory



Battat

Target - $30.99

Amazon - $39.95

Kmart Australia - $39.00

Li l ' Woodzeez

Happy Camper

Product Number :

6116D

Manufacturer:

Battat




"Cars" WGP

Workbench

Manufacturer:

Smoby

Smoby (Simba-Dickie Group)



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